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CAIRO: ...Adel Adeeb, head of the Cairo-based film production company Good News for Film and Music ... other movies on the company's production slate include a biopic of the founder of modern Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, and the first Arab celluloid version of Sinbad the Sailor. "Sinbad is Arab, and no one from the Arab world has dared produce a film about it," said Adeeb. "There will be both an English and Arabic version of the film."

Amr Diab, a successful Arab pop singer, will take on the title role in the film, which would mark the start of the first film franchise in the Arab world, he said.

Egypt enjoyed its cinematic heyday from the 1940s to the 1960s with actor Omar Sharif enjoying global renown, but the slump set in the 1970s. Only recently has Egypt's movie industry begun to recover, according to Adeeb.

"We have great technicians and artists, but they don't know how to market themselves. Our company is helping to change that," he said.
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